North Korea’s party daily on Friday condemned the South Korean government for recent military and civil drills, warning that the exercise stood to worsen increasingly-tense relations between the two.

An article carried on the sixth page of Friday’s Rodong Sinmun reported that Seoul had continued its “provocative racket,” slamming the modified “Ulchi Taeguk” drills held late last month.

The Ulchi Taeguk exercise — which lasted from May 27 and 30 — served as another “reckless and dangerous war provocation and racket” aimed at the North, it said.

South Korean authorities have dismissed the North’s criticism of the exercises, denying